The Engineering Council (EngC) and the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE) President José Quadrado have organised an “Introduction to EUR ACE ® Labels” event on 17 October 2025, 2pm – 4pm.
The Engineering Council (EngC) and the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE) President José Quadrado have organised an “Introduction to EUR ACE ® Labels” event on 17 October 2025, 2pm – 4pm.
13 October 2025 13:00 – 14:30
Led by Professor John Mitchell, UCL
Hosted by Middlesex University’s Dr Homeira Shayesteh, Pedagogic Research Group Lead for the Faculty of Science and Technology with support from the Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE).
Aim:
This session will consider the importance of pedagogic research, and in particularly how it relates to the support of large-scale educational change in STEM and Engineering disciplines. The session will outline the need for educational research as both a means to inform curriculum development, but also as an enabler of innovation in the classroom and as a support for teaching staff. It will cover platforms for publication and give some examples of best practices in this area.
Biographical Note:
John Mitchell is Professor of Communications Systems Engineering and Head of the UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and Co-director of the UCL Centre for Engineering Education. Between 2012 and 2016 he was on secondment to the UCL Engineering Sciences Faculty office, where he led the introduction of the Integrated Engineering Programme, a major revision of the curriculum across the engineering faculty. He has a background in optical and wireless access technologies including contributions to Fibre-to-the-home networks and 5G front-haul. He has published widely on curriculum development, active learning and issues of diversity within engineering education. From 2015 to 2022 he was Vice-Dean Education of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences.
Professor Mitchell is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and National Teaching Fellow, President of the Engineering Professors’ Council, Vice-President Publications of the IEEE Education Society and was until recently a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Society for Engineering Education and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Education. In 2024 he was awarded the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal of the European Society for Engineering Education.
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The engineering industry is facing some serious challenges. Our research shows that just over 4 in 5 engineers experience emotional or mental health concerns, yet less than half feel comfortable talking about issues like this with their employer, and a staggering 1 in 4 engineers have considered self-harm or taking their own life. This comes at a time when the skills gap means we’re expected to need a further 173,000 engineers over the next 5 years; meanwhile, women are leaving the industry at an increasing rate. Having psychologically safe teams and culture is more important now than ever.
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Exploring innovations in advanced materials and manufacturing
This event is part of the University’s Dalton Events series, which provides opportunities for academics and industry to explore topics of mutual interest and to network. It will feature speakers, stands and an opportunity to see the Aston Martin Aramco F1 car up close.
It will feature senior leaders from Aston Martin Aramco Formula 1, MINI, Siemens and The Rakem Group.
Hosted by Middlesex University’s Dr Homeira Shayesteh, Senior Lecturer in Construction, Architecture and BIM and Pedagogic Research Group Lead for the Faculty of Science and Technology and supported by the University’s Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE).
Date: Monday 19 May 2025
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm (UK Time)
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
The Webinar will be led by Dr Patricia Xavier and Prof. Sarah Jayne Hitt from the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) and will discuss challenges and barriers to pedagogy research in engineering education and explore approaches to overcoming them in order to develop and enhance scholarship of teaching and learning.
Professor Sarah Jayne Hitt was one of NMITE’s founding faculty members, joining the institution in 2019. Before that she worked at the Colorado School of Mines, where she was Director of the Writing Center and Director of the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs. Professor Hitt also serves as Project Manager for the Engineering Professors Council’s Ethics, Sustainability, and Complex Systems Toolkits.
Dr Patricia Xavier is an engineering educator, interested in interdisciplinarity and its complexities. She is the Programme Lead for BSc Construction Management. Patricia is fascinated by engineering identities and habits, and what it means to become an engineer. Her research includes characterising the intersection between personal and professional value systems, how the process of training appears to prioritise certain habits (e.g., an adherence to tradition and authority), and de-prioritises others (e.g., the role and value of considering emotion and ethics in engineering design).
NMITE (The New Model Institution for Technology and Engineering) is a new university in Hereford that is designed to be different. NMITE uses block learning, challenge-led assessment and liberal studies-informed team teaching to curate immersive learning experiences and develop work-ready graduates. The courses in Integrated and Mechanical Engineering and Construction Management all have intensive industry engagement built in, with students getting regular opportunities to work on challenges set by industry challenge sponsors. The liberal studies teaching encourages student to engage critically with the roles that engineering and technology have in shaping society. NMITE also has open entry criteria and does not require maths or physics A-level to start Year 1 of the engineering programmes, instead providing catch-up opportunities for students to build up from their GCSE-level knowledge during their first year of study. NMITE provides a model for alternative thinking about Higher Education – challenging traditional assumptions about what kinds of students can become great engineers and about what engineering learning looks like.
The Webinar will explore interdisciplinary approaches to pedagogy research and is open to all Faculties and disciplines.
For any questions, please contact Dr Homeira Shayesteh: H.Shayesteh@mdx.ac.uk
Please register via this link:
https://mdxstaffdev.libcal.com/event/4372231
A one-day in-person HE mathematics education workshop at Queen Mary University of London
The UK & Ireland EERN (Engineering Education Research Network) are pleased to announce the Annual Symposium for 2025 hosted by The University of Manchester.
Commemorating the centenary of the Electrical Association for Women (EAW)
This is strictly a by invitation only event.
This Round Table is intended to introduce Dr Gert Jan Scheurwater, the Director of Foresight and Strategy at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), and the work that he and his colleagues have been doing to apply the approaches of Strategic Foresight to envisaging and anticipating potential futures for engineering and engineers over coming decades.
If you have not received an invitation but would like to attend, please contact us by email. Numbers are very limited, but we will be happy to hear from anyone interested in engaging.